Burning Question about CMS
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Last Post: February 28, 2008 (RSS)
By Codee - February 27, 2008 - edited: April 6, 2011
I'm REALLY appreciating the power of CMS Builder after testing it with a recent client. I have 2 other projects that I'd like to use CMS Builder for - if it can handle what I need:
1) One project needs to have the ability for multiple agents, or entities, to login individually, and add their inventory listings. The cumulative inventory listings from ALL agents or entities need to be viewable and searchable by the website visitors. Is CMB Builder set up to handle this?
2) One project would work very well with what I know of CMS Builder BUT has strong shopping cart tendencies. Is it on the horizon (or immediate horizon) to add a shopping cart module to CMS Builder?
Thank you in advance.
Re: [equinox69] Burning Question about CMS
By Dave - February 27, 2008
1) No yet, but that feature is completed and currently in QA (testing) awaiting final release. You'll be able to restrict users to only be able to edit their own records (in the editor) and limit the max records they can create per section.
2) There's no plans to add a shopping cart to CMS Builder or make an add-on in the near future but since it's so flexible in the content it can create it should be compatible with just about any kind of shopping cart out there you want to use, including paypal's free one.
Hope that helps!
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Re: [Dave] Burning Question about CMS
By Codee - February 27, 2008 - edited: April 6, 2011
As far as having "agents" under a main administrator or broker...does Listings Manager have this capability? From the description I gather that it "seems" to. And if it has the ability to set up multiple user accounts, does it allow the ability to search and display the inventory/listings from all user accounts at one time? And is it MySQL based?
Thanks again.
Re: [equinox69] Burning Question about CMS
By Dave - February 28, 2008
Is that enough or is there something you wanted to do where having agents under a broker made sense?
And yes you can search all listings from all user accounts at the same time. CMS Builder is MySQL based, Listings Manager isn't and has a practical max records limit of around 2000.
If you're just starting a new project or you're not sure what product to pick, I'd choose CMS Builder.
Hope that helps, any other questions just let me know.
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Re: [Dave] Burning Question about CMS
By Codee - February 28, 2008 - edited: April 6, 2011
Since Listings Manager isn't MySQL based it wouldn't suit our needs for this project. The first agent on the system would max out the flatfile ability and there's about 50 agents.
Since CMS doesn't currently have the ability, like Listings Manager, for multiple logins and separated records access...how much programming would it take if we hired you to modify your program to make this happen for our client? Feel free to email me offline:
Thanks,
Re: [equinox69] Burning Question about CMS
By Dave - February 28, 2008
>Manager, for multiple logins and separated records access
We've actually been working on this already. All the programming has been completed and it's in final QA Testing before release.
It could be released as soon as tomorrow.
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